This Power Point is about SUBJECTS and OBJECTS
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This Power Point is about SUBJECTS and OBJECTS
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This Power Point is about SUBJECTS and OBJECTS
Look at this example:
Most sentences have a SUBJECT, a VERB and an
OBJECT.
The huge spider silently crept across its silvery web.
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SUBJECTS The huge spider silently crept across its silvery web.
The word highlighted in green is the SUBJECT. It is usually a noun or a pronoun.
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Carefully, Angela picked up the vase.
The SUBJECT of a sentence is usually the person or thing acting or doing in the sentence. It’s what or who the sentence is about.
SUBJECT
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Angela is the SUBJECT of the sentence. She is the noun doing something (picking up).
OBJECTS The huge spider silently crept across its silvery web.
The word highlighted in blue is the OBJECT. It is usually a noun or a pronoun.
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Carefully, Angela picked up the vase.
The OBJECT of a sentence is the person or thing being done to. The object receives the action.
SUBJECT
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The vase is the OBJECT of the sentence. It is the noun receiving the action (it’s being picked up).
OBJECT
Jonah bravely crossed the room.
SUBJECT
OBJECT
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Jonah is the noun doing something (crossing the room). The room is the noun receiving the action (it’s being crossed).
Kate felt too frightened to tell to them.
SUBJECT
OBJECT
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Kateis the noun doing something (feeling frightened and not telling).
Them is the pronoun receiving the action (it’s not being told).
Running wildly through the forest, the fox tried to escape the hunters.
SUBJECT
OBJECT
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The fox is the noun doing something (running, trying to escape).
The forest and the hunters are the nouns receiving the action (being run through, being escaped from).
OBJECT
The dog shivered.
Not all sentences have an OBJECT
SUBJECT
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The dog is the SUBJECT of the sentence. There is no OBJECT –nothing is being shivered to
Andrew broke the window.
Look at the differences between these two sentences
OBJECT
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The window was broken.
SUBJECT
Andrew is the subject: he is the noun doing something.
SUBJECT
Is this sentence, what was the OBJECT has become the SUBJECT and Andrew has disappeared!
Andrew broke the window. OBJECT
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The window was broken.
SUBJECT
This type of sentence is called ACTIVE . The verb is active: Andrew is doing something
SUBJECT
This type of sentence is called . The verb is passive: The window is having something done to it
ACTIVE &
John ate all the sweets.
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All the sweets were eaten.
SUBJECT
ACTIVE
SUBJECT
ACTIVE &
Thieves stole computers and laptops.
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Computers and laptops were stolen.
SUBJECT
ACTIVE
SUBJECT
ACTIVE &
“I didn’t complete the homework, Sir.”
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“The homework was not completed, Sir.”
SUB- JECT
ACTIVE
SUBJECT
ACTIVE &
SUMMARY > Most sentences have a SUBJECT, VERB & OBJECT
> The SUBJECT of a sentence is usually the person or thing acting or doing in the sentence. It’s what or who the sentence is about
> The OBJECT of a sentence is the person or thing being done to; the object receives the action
> In ACTIVE sentences, the SUBJECT is actively doing something
> In sentences, the SUBJECT is passively having something done to it
You are learning about… SUBJECTS and OBJECTS
Created by Tom Richmond
